Digital ID infrastructure has the potential of granting 1.7 billion people globally inclusive access to financial services, help save about 110 billion productive hours through streamlined e-government services (including social protection), and increase economic value for both emerging and matured economies by 3 to 6 per cent of GDP respectively. . McKinsey Global Institute has through research highlighted nearly 100 ways by which digital ID can be beneficial to individuals and institutions, and enable the safe inclusion of billions into the digital economy. . Read the full report on Digital Identification: A Key To Inclusive Growth here: https://lnkd.in/dv_yg9f @mckinseyco@mckinseyafrica#OmidyarNetwork#GoodID#DigitalID#DigitalIdentity#identification#ID4D#EveryID#LeaveNoOneBehind#IdentityForAll

Google seem to think that some kind of tacking is essential to the smooth running of the internet. As Jonathan Mayer and Arvind Narayanan point out this isn't true: ""If the benchmark is original design intent, let’s be clear: cookies were not supposed to enable third-party tracking, and browsers were supposed to block third-party cookies. We know this because the authors of the original cookie technical specification said so (RFC 2109, Section 4.3.5). Read more here: https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2019/08/23/deconstructing-googles-excuses-on-tracking-protection/

The government of DRC has set up a National Digital Plan to drive the country’s digital growth and development. A validation workshop attended by the President is currently ongoing to examine the plan and to engage NGOs, donor organizations, and other partners. . GenKey, together with its partner SECOIA Executive Consultants, is participating in this important event. Our CEO, Michiel Loeff @loeff_genkey, has been sharing insights on digital identification and the opportunities it provides for #development. .#Digitization#DigitalID#IdentityForAll#DigitalTransformation#SocialImpact

As the EFF states, people are genuinely concerned about how tech companies like Facebook and Instagram treat their data. This concern is legitimate ... but ""this isn't how privacy or copyright law works. This isn't how contract law, which governs your relationship with a company’s terms of service, works.

Read the EFF's short history of these posts here: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/08/there-are-no-magic-words-you-can-post-change-instagrams-terms-service"

It feels like an impossible task. Facebook's business model is build around surveillance capitalism - gathering more data is good for business. That's why we think we need a technological solution to the data privacy problem.

With a reliable legal ID, individuals have the opportunity to receive social benefits, get an #education, access #healthcare and financial services, exercise their right to vote and participate in other democratic activities. A trusted and secure #digitalID serves as a ladder to these aspirations. . Watch the video below by the @WorldBank Group on how digital identification has empowered people in India to access different opportunities. . Video Title (YouTube): #EveryID Has a Story: A Ladder to Aspirations .#IdentityForAll#ID4D#GoodID

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Is tech stealing our jobs?!? Actually, tech is changing them. The tech sector is expected to create 133 million new jobs, while 75 million others are replaced or augmented. At Talle we see this as a huge opportunity for new professionals! Our next episode of B in the Know dives into one of these emergent spaces to tackle how to build a career in identity! We are excited to sit down with Ian Glazer, who is the founder of ID Pro, to chat with him about his journey as a digital identity professional. The organization works to support and mentor people entering the world of digital identity. We couldn’t think of a better person for this conversation! If you are curious about the identity space and want to get involved - this episode is for you! Check out the link in our bio. Don’t forget to subscribe to stay in the know on all things #tech & #identity with Talle and Bianca Lopes! . . A tecnologia está roubando nossos empregos? Na verdade, ela está mudando! O setor de tecnologia deverá criar 133 milhões de novos empregos, enquanto outros 75 milhões serão substituídos ou aumentados. Na Talle, vemos isso como uma grande oportunidade para novos profissionais! Nosso próximo episódio de B in the Know mergulha em uma dessas áreas emergentes para abordar como construir uma carreira em identidade. Estamos entusiasmados pela conversa com Ian Glazer, que é fundador do ID Pro, sobre sua jornada como profissional deIdentidade Digital. A organização trabalha para apoiar e orientar pessoas que entram nesse ramo. Não conseguimos pensar em uma pessoa melhor para esta conversa! Se você está curioso sobre ser um profissional de identidade e quer saber mais sobre isso - este episódio é para você! Dá uma olhada no link da bio! #digitalidentity#digitalidentityprofessional#idpro#digitalID#digitaldata#technology#newprofessions

E4C Fellow Senka Hadzic holds a PhD in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering and is based in Cape Town, South Africa. She researches low-cost connectivity solutions for emerging countries and also alternative spectrum policies. A big goal of her research is to enable small-scale operators and allow communities to connect themselves. Under the E4C Research Fellowship Senka is working on a Research Collaboration for the Norwegian Red Cross (DIGID project) looking at trust systems from a technical perspective in digital ID systems in Kenya. We will be sharing the outcomes of this research by October. Be sure to stay tuned and check out all our Research Collaboration highlights. https://www.engineeringforchange.org/research/⁣ .⁣ .⁣ .⁣#FellowFriday#tech#ICT#SouthAfrica#womenleaders#womenintech#research#tech4good#SDGs#tech4dev#digitalid#Kenya#E4CFellows#CapeTown#STEM#engineer#engineering#electronics#telecommunications

According to a recent survey, in assessing the types of Americans were least likely to share, social security numbers, along with financial and medical information, their work address, home address, and phone numbers.

#Afya-Tek will integrate digital tech 📱 into a new responsive, people-centred health system in #Tanzania 🏥 . . We are very excited to be part of this initiative that will work to strengthen the links between community health workers, Accredited Drug Dispensing Outlets (ADDOs) and health facilities to ensure prompt access to care to all members of the community. . . Afya-Tek is supported by Foundation botnar and brings together a consortium of partners that includes @dtreeinternational, @simprints, @doctor_elsa, Apotheker Tanzania and ITM Antwerp. . Go to the link in our bio to learn more 🔗⬆️ . . 📸 Fondation Botnar

Have you ever accessed this tool? Did you find it helpful? We would argue that a more insightful way of understanding Facebook's access to data would be to purchase an Ad on the platform. On the ad platform you can see immediately the granularity of data they have on their users.

Our mission is to build #technology 📱 that radically increases transparency and effectiveness in #globaldev, making sure that every vaccine 💉, every dollar 💵, every public good 📕 reaches the people who need them most.

This is what is happening today. ‘Premium services’ allow users to keep their data secure and private while ‘free’ means your data is exploited. If privacy is a universal right then we can’t have different classes of privacy based on income.

"Dangerous to say. Even if you can put a dollar value on your data this number can’t account for the potential damage the eventual aggregation could cause you.

The EFF puts it this way -

A specific piece of information can be priceless in a particular context. Your location data may cost a company less than a penny to buy, yet cost you your physical safety if it falls into the wrong hands. Companies advertised lists of 1,000 people with different conditions such as anorexia, depression and erectile dysfunction for $79 per list. Such embarrassing information in the wrong hands could cost someone their job or their reputation.

"There are currently no formally established methods of working out how much customer data is worth.

Why would establishing a framework to value data be useful? Well, it might allow you as a consumer to get better rewarded for the exploitation of the information you give-up online. You might be able to tell, for example, if signing-up to a 'free' service is actually good value for money. "

#fingerprints are helping in the fight against neglected tropical diseases 🖐👆️️ The transmission of parasitic worms is a major health issue in Ethiopia, with many people living in endemic areas. This type of neglected tropical disease (NTD) is preventable and treatable but, too often, tracking treatment delivery can be challenging.

In 2018, funded by the Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), we launched the #Geshiyaro project, with the London Centre for Neglected Tropical Disease Research, the Ministry of Health of #Ethiopia, the Ethiopian Public Health Institute, and World Vision Ethiopia. This initiative will use fingerprint #biometrics to help accurately track who is receiving treatment and when, with the aim to finally break the transmission in the region.

Philosophers have been debating how we define privacy for centuries; I would prefer independent, reasoned minds to determine social norms and human rights rather than tech billionaires who have financial interest in gathering more and more personal data.

"A recent flaw let attackers install surveillance software on phones via the app's call function. ""Researchers at the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab said they believed that the spyware attack on Sunday [May 12] was linked to the same vulnerability that WhatsApp was trying to patch."" Read: https://www.ft.com/content/4da1117e-756c-11e9-be7d-6d846537acab https://seoforestweb.com/2019/05/13/whatsapp-says-flaw-let-attackers-install-nso-group-surveillance-software-on-phones-via-the-apps-call-function-issued-server-fix-friday-and-a-patch-on-monday-mehul-srivastava-financial-times/" _

"Just think, for instance, of how few people there are at your company, with your bank, your hobby, your preferred newspaper and your mobile phone provider. By creating “fingerprints” from the data, it’s possible to compare it to other, more public, sources of what URLs people have visited, such as social media accounts, or public YouTube playlists.” Extract from report: https://boingboing.net/2017/08/02/anonymization-meets-reality.html"